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Crime is down, police officials say Despite widespread unease following Sept. spree, crime data shows significant decline

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

For some students, alcohol consumption is an integral part of college life.

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Univ. looks to Loh’s history on alcohol New president amid alcohol policy debates

Students bombarded by crime alerts and newscasts decrying a College Park crime wave have reported feeling uneasy with the amount of criminal activity occurring on or near the campus this past month, but police officials said in reality, crime on the campus has gone down significantly.

University Police Director of Public Safety David Mitchell hopes to combat students’ misperception by

letting students know not only when crime happens, but also when police catch suspects and close cases.

“We need to refine the system,” Mitchell said, adding that there will soon be messages that, in essence say, “Hey, by the way, here’s the update: We made an arrest or we closed it out.”

Although last month saw a slight increase in the number of burglaries, thefts and trespassings compared to last September, crime overall has decreased dramatically, according to University Police data.

Although about three months remain before the end of the year, police have only seen six on-campus robberies this year, including Sunday’s incident behind Anne Arundel Hall. Just four years ago, campus police responded to 15 robberies on the campus. That same year, there were 91 reported assault cases on the campus. This year only 25 have been reported.

As students know, however, crime doesn’t only happen on the campus grounds. Of the seven muggings this semester that have

been widely reported, only one took place on the campus.

Prince George’s County Police officials are reporting similar trends: College Park crime is down, which follows a county-wide trend.

Regardless, police do not deny the serious potential for crime in the city and on the campus, due largely to its urban locale, but officials said crime alert notifications can create an overblown sense of danger among students and their families.

see CRIME, page 7

O’Malley to students: I’m ‘on your side’ Gov. rallies supporters in campaign kick-off

BY LAUREN REDDING Senior staff writer

In April, Wallace Loh crossed off one of his most controversial initiatives: A 21-only ordinance passed in Iowa City, barring underage patrons from bars in an effort to cut down on binge drinking.

But Loh won’t get to see the fruits of more than two years of hard work and lobbying — less than three months after the ordinance was enacted June 1, he was offered the position to replace 12year university President Dan Mote.

Loh’s appointment has generated mostly positive reactions from the campus community for both his diverse background in academia and public policy. But the incoming administrator will take over at a contentious time at this university for alcohol-related policy, prompting many to wonder if Loh will

BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer

Walking into a room of student supporters waving signs and chanting his name, Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) kicked off his “On Your Side” tour to the sound of Bruce Springsteen’s “Land of Hopes and Dreams” blasting through speakers in Stamp Student Union yesterday.

The tour, complete with a 31-foot RV dubbed the “On Your Side Express,” is the final thrust in O’Malley’s reelection campaign and will run for the next four weeks.

Although he will be visiting 24 counties across the state, the governor told the audience he did not begin in College Park by accident: O’Malley spent more than half of

his 30-minute speech emphasizing education as crucial to keeping this state at the forefront of the nation.

“You are our future,” O’Malley said.

“There will be winners and there will be losers, and the states that will be winners will be the states that put the talent, the skills and the creative capacity of their people first.”

Giuliana Kunkel, a senior government and politics major and vice president of College Democrats, introduced the governor to a crowd of about 50 students and O’Malley supporters. Kunkel is featured in the governor’s campaign commercial titled “Tuition,” in which she said she would

see O’MALLEY, page 2

Above: Gov. Martin O'Malley exits his campaign bus in front of Stamp Student Union. Below: The governor speaks to supporters in the Prince George's Room in Stamp yesterday.

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see DRINKING, page 7

New system may lead to fewer tickets DOTS sees 6 percent drop in parking citations

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

A new DOTS parking-permit system may be responsible for a drop in parking tickets issued to motorists in university parking spaces, the department’s director said.

In the new system, launched this semester for student parking lots, electronic scanners mounted on Department of Transportation Services vehicles scan parked cars’ license plates and run the numbers through a database to see if the cars are registered to park.

The Campus License Plate Recognition system replaced plastic hanging permits.

“It’s new for us,” DOTS Director David Allen said of the system.

DOTS issued 9,340 tickets campus-wide last month, Allen said, down from 9,960 in September 2009. Parking ticket fines represented nearly a fifth of the department’s revenue in the last fiscal year.

Allen added that he wasn’t sure exactly what caused the 6 percent drop in issued tickets because numerous factors

see TICKETS, page 2

TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

Students call Vito’s new lounge a welcome bar-alternative After several delays, pizza parlor opens new lounge area equipped for late-night crowds

BY AMANDA PINO Staff writer

Students who had hungrily awaited the relaunch of Vito’s Pizzeria, which opened its doors for the first time since shutting down mid-September for remodeling, got a taste of the newly expanded and renovated restaurant last night.

The popular pizza joint saw a steady stream of dinner and carry-out business after its 5 p.m. reveal, and although the restaurant’s reopening was delayed last week, owner Vito Riccio said last night’s opening was just a part of the plan to transform the space into a late-night hangout.

The soft-opening featured a limited

Showers/60s

menu of subs, half-price pizzas and beer. While the lack of individual slices sent at least one patron out the door, students for the most part got what they came for: a pizza to share with friends and a place to watch Monday Night Football on the shop’s new flat-screen televisions.

For several students, the end of the weeks-long closure was a big relief.

“It’s the best pizza place in College Park,” said junior finance and accounting major Tom Stevens.

But the renovation is still a work in progress: Although the TVs attracted sports fans, no menus were displayed and few decorations were hung. In at

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Vito Riccio, owner of Vito’s Pizzeria, puts pizza in the oven last night for the first time in weeks, after renovations to transform the restaurant into a bar and lounge shuttered the shop’s doors. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

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DOTS’ new Campus License Plate Recognition system may be responsible for a drop in the number of tickets issued. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

TICKETS from page 1 influence drivers’ parking habits.

“Every year is different,” Allen said. “Tickets go up and down. If it rains or it’s cold, people could be out sick. It could be because of a lot of different things.”

Some students said they have been receiving more tickets, not fewer, since the permit changeover, including sophomore communication and theatre major Natalye Cohen, who said she received four tickets last month.

“I’m shocked there have been fewer tickets so far this year than last year,” she said.

Allen said that the CLPR system is not only less costly than printing and mailing thousands of plastic permits, but that scanning license plates also avoids the risk of permits being lost or stolen. Cohen said the new system hasn’t fixed anything for her.

“Many of the tickets that I’ve received have been irrational,” she said. “They gave me a ticket because my E-ZPass was partially blocking my permit, but my license plate was still registered. I just don’t understand.”

Elizabeth Caskey, a sophomore biochemistry major, also ran up numerous parking violations last month — six in total.

“I received more tickets in September than I did all of last semester,” Caskey said. “Students already pay an excessive amount of money to get the permit in the first place. I don’t understand why we have to pay

even more if we park in the wrong spot.”

Caskey, like Cohen, complained about “irrational” tickets related to the new permit system. Caskey said she received a ticket last week for not having her permit displayed.

“I never got a permit,” she said. “I thought they were supposed to scan my license plate now. It makes no sense.”

Allen said CLPR still represents an upgrade over plastic hang-tags.

“We know that the technology is better,” Allen said. “It’s more convenient for people.

Overall, it’s a better system.”

Not all of Caskey’s issues stemmed from the new permit system, she said. She said she’s also been ticketed for mistakenly parking in the wrong lot.

“I’m honestly angry,” she said of her six tickets. “I think that DOTS needs to take into account that students are having trouble reading the lot signs and are getting a bunch of tickets because of it.”

DOTS made several changes to Lot 1 early this semester to address overcrowding issues, first allowing students to park in the adjacent University of Maryland University College lot and then expanding Lot 1 into part of Lot Z. Even with an overall decrease in parking tickets, students complained they’re stuck footing the bill as DOTS sorts out its new permit system and shuffles its parking lots.

“This is a problem that really needs to be fixed,” Cohen said. egan@umdbk.com

not have been able to attend the university without O’Malley’s tuition freeze for in-state students. The freeze, which was established four years ago, expired this academic year and gave way to a 3 percent hike in in-state tuition.

“There’s never a doubt whose side he’s on,” Kunkel said in the commercial.

O’Malley has spent the bulk of his campaign trying to level with “real Marylanders.”

In the front of the room at the event yesterday was a kitchen table, a symbol O’Malley will focus on throughout the tour.

“When I was growing up, all of the most important decisions were made around the kitchen table,” O’Malley said.

“We need a governor on our side; we need one who’s working for us, across hundreds of thousands of kitchen tables,” O’Malley said.

While not all students were brandishing flags in support

yesterday, some took an interest in the message O’Malley was presenting. Junior community health major Jessica Dembe said she was in Stamp yesterday with no intention of rallying for the governor, but when someone stopped her and asked if she wanted to see O’Malley, she thought it was a good opportunity to become educated on the gubernatorial race.

“I’m willing to listen to what ever yone has to say,” Dembe said. “But I do like what he’s saying.”

Dembe said she thinks college tuition is the most important issue facing students, followed by job creation, and that she likes O’Malley’s attitude toward moving forward as well as his signature tuition freezes.

“We’re at an uncertain junction right now,” Dembe said regarding the economy and job market. “And we need to find the best way out of it.”

O’Malley alluded to the anger many Americans are feeling about the economy

Gov. Martin O'Malley speaks with the media in Stamp Student Union yesterday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

and the government by calling the country “an angry, tangled, frustrated ball.”

“We all have pretty good reasons to be angry and frustrated,” he said, mentioning families losing money and significant retirement funds in the stock market. “But if there’s one thing our shared story tells us, it’s that we can have our anger and our fear, or we can have a better future for our kids, but we can’t

have both.”

President Barack Obama will join O’Malley Thursday on his trip to Bowie State University and the governor will continue across the state until election day.

O’Malley’s opponent, former Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R), has not yet announced his campaign plans for the final month. farrell@umdbk.com

Professor named ‘science envoy’ by White House Microbiology professor will serve as representative to Muslim world

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Staff writer

She has devoted her life to discovering new ways to combat infectious diseases in developing countries. Now, microbiology professor Rita Colwell has been called upon by the White House to take her research abroad.

Colwell is one of three new “science envoys” named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month to travel to countries such as Bangladesh, Malaysia and Vietnam in the coming months to foster scientific collaboration between these countries and the U.S. to address various public health issues.

Colwell is out of the country and did not return e-mails yesterday, and her colleagues said they did not know when she would be leaving or her itinerary. Colwell said in a university press release that her main focuses as science envoy will be on water safety and education for girls and women.

“It is an opportunity to be able to serve my country and to provide a positive face for the United States in addressing problems that affect people, friends and colleagues who live in other countries and could be benefited by science, technology and engineering,” she said in the press release.

Colwell, who served as the first female director of the National Science Foundation from 1998 to 2004, comes to the table with extensive experience researching in the Muslim world.

She spent more than 35 years in Bangladesh researching water safety and cholera pandemics, where she discovered that by simply straining contaminated water through cloth saris, the people of Bangladesh could filter out the microorganisms that carry water-borne cholera virus — a discovery that reduced cholera cases by 50 percent, Colwell told The Diamondback in 2008, saving hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives.

Since 2006 Colwell has taken her cholera research even further by collaborating with oceanic researchers at the university, where she serves on faculty with the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. By studying satellite images, Colwell and her colleagues discovered a correlation among cholera outbreaks, climate changes and levels of zooplankton in the Indian Ocean; they are now trying to use satellites to predict cholera outbreaks. Colwell was awarded the international Stockholm Water Prize for her cholera research earlier this year.

Atmospheric and oceanic science professor Antonio Busalacci, who works with Colwell on this research, said he does not expect Colwell’s term as science envoy to delay or interfere with their work for the university. On the contrary, he said, what she does overseas can only build tremendously on the work they have already done.

“Our studies involve people not just here, but people in the local provinces of the countries that are affected,” he said. “So in her role as science envoy, she will be developing and nurturing further collaboration.”

In the press release, Colwell echoed that sentiment.

“I am sure that with our very strong international program ... there will be connections that can be enriched or enhanced,” she said.

UMIACS Director Amitabh Varshney said he definitely hopes Colwell will continue to work closely with the university but he added her new post will allow her to apply her research on a greater scale than she would have by working on-campus.

“This is a unique opportunity to exercise a leadership on the international stage now that goes above and beyond her role as a faculty member,” he said. villanueva@umdbk.com

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2010 | NEWS | THE DIAMONDBACK

The Knox Road parking garage appears to have more patrons than it did a year ago, perhaps due to the recent opening of Ledo Restaurant, but September revenue was not as high as city officials expected it to be. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Ledo Restaurant is located on the ground floor of the Knox Road parking garage. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Garage’s revenue falls in September Despite recent opening of Ledo Restaurant, garage fails to deliver

BY AMANDA PINO Staff writer

While the newest parking garage in downtown College Park is certainly looking busier than it did a year ago, the city hasn’t seen the facility bring in much more money.

Adjacent to Ledo Restaurant and behind Cornerstone Grill and Loft and RJ Bentley’s on Knox Road, the five-story, $9 million garage was built to bring in businesses that could cater to a more diverse clientele than just students, who tend to travel around Route 1 mainly on foot.

But for most of its first semester in operation last fall, many of the 288 parking spaces stood empty.

With the arrival of Ledo, driving up to the second or third floor of the garage to find a space has become a more common occurrence —but the city still hasn’t cashed in.

“I don’t know if people are afraid of parking in garages or what,” said College Park Director of Finance Stephen Groh.

The garage pulled in $5,200 last September. Revenue fell to a low of $4,800 in January but peaked during the spring semester, bringing in over $8,000 a month from March to May. Ledo opened in late August, but the garage’s revenue for September totaled just over $6,500.

“We’ve definitely brought a lot more people into the garage,” said Ledo manager Kendra Wolfe, who said the majority of the pizza joint’s patrons and employees park there. But rather than necessarily being a plus for business, she said some of the restaurant’s older patrons — the original Ledo closed this summer — have mentioned that they aren’t used to paying for parking.

Groh said one possible explanation for the dip in revenue could be that many Ledo customers park in the city hall lot or at the meters on Yale Avenue.

As for the contrasting spike in the spring, Groh said there were construction vehicles parked there all day while doing work on nearby sorority and fraternity houses, and the garage also served as a popular parking place during basketball games.

Still, the garage remains the cheapest parking option in the city at just 75 cents an hour. City officials say it is also more convenient, as patrons can pay by cash or credit card. This semester the garage also boasts new payment machines, which process credit cards faster.

District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin said he was shocked to hear the garage did worse revenue-wise than several months during both last fall and this past spring. Catlin counts the cars in the garage almost daily, and said on average he spots more than 100 cars there. A year ago, City Parking Enforcement Director Jim Miller noticed about 55 cars a day on average.

Catlin said he thought September may have lost a lot of monthly permit revenue to students’ purchasing them early in August, and said the garage should be pulling in close to $10,000 a month in just a few months’ time.

Yesterday evening, most of the garage’s patrons were older city residents who were heading to or coming back from dinner at Ledo. The restaurant itself was about half-full and ser ving mostly non-student patrons.

While Groh said the start of the semester brought an uptick in the purchase of monthly permits, which he attributed to students’ return, getting students to use the garage can be difficult.

“Since it costs money, I prefer to walk the extra minute to get where I’m going,” said senior economics major Chris Graves.

“I don’t know anyone who uses the garage.” apino@umdbk.com

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iPad innovation

hen news broke last May that the Honors College would be dol- such rebukes miss the point.

Innovative education should not be treated like a bad thing. Honors has fosing out dozens of new iPads to freshmen enrolled in the Digital Cultures and Creativity living-learning program, few were tered a truly unique program that could very easily attract prospective stupleased. During a time when the university was facing fur- dents or inspire similar campaigns. Although having an iPad is pretty cool, it loughs, budget cuts and a hiring freeze, it seemed a bit absurd that the univer- is also relevant to the goals of the courses and is in line with the university’s sity would buy students the new gadgets, which can cost $499 to $599 each large-scale aspirations to become an innovative leader in the new century.

The DCC program has shown what university officials are capable of before tax at Apple stores.

Despite the grumbles from fiscally conscious (or perhaps jealous) stu- accomplishing when they put their minds to it. It was created and launched at such a lightning pace that it stands in stark contrast dents and alumni, we shouldn’t be so quick to criticize to the molasses rate at which things often get done at the initiative without digging deeper. the university. It also encourages the university to be The iPad is just one component of the two-year DCC living-learning community, which is meant to link the Giving iPads to students in on the cutting edge, and such an investment in the humanities, which is often overshadowed by the hard humanities with new media and technologies. The prothe Digital Cultures and sciences, should be welcomed with open arms. gram itself has been the subject of some criticism Creativity Honors program is Other colleges would do well to follow the example because of the purchase, but this seems to ignore the Honors has laid out for inventive education as this univertrue revolutionary nature of the Honors initiative. The anything but a seemingly sity and others move into a far more competitive global courses attempt to challenge popular assumptions and frivolous expense. age where interdisciplinary study is not only important, link things such as literature with technology in an but a necessity. Innovation in higher education is someuncharted and emerging field.

As printed content makes the shift in the digital age, e-books as well as thing that should be celebrated at all levels. By arming a small number of stuonline newspaper and magazine subscriptions are considered by many to be dents with new technology, the program is in a sense preparing the university the future of the “printed” word. And through the DCC program, students for new strides in harnessing technology for the benefit of its students.

It’s easy enough to bemoan the spending of university dollars on frivolous who may one day enter the world of publishing are given hands-on experience that could help shape a future that still remains uncertain for many in the technology, especially when someone else is benefiting from it. But if students feel slighted or jealous, they should let their colleges know. Not just as a means industry.

Criticism leveled against the program is foolish and seems based solely on to complain, but to encourage a progressive attitude that looks to launch the the program’s material components. A shiny new iPad is an easy target, but entire university into the future.

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Editorial cartoon: Morgan Noonan

Online anonymity: Where madness lies

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few days ago, as I was killing time on The Diamondback’s website, the title of my first column caught my eye somewhere in the periphery of the monitor. A month or so after its initial publication, the column had jumped onto the “Most Commented” list. I like to see what people are saying about my columns, so I looked.

Big mistake.

I’ve always had a problem with anonymous commentary. It strikes me as a very creepy, voyeuristic activity. It allows people to discard their social fronts and be brutally honest.

Unfortunately, sometimes the socially constructed you is much more appealing and tolerable than the real deal.

The Diamondback’s website is one of the many places on the Internet where people can create an identity for themselves without being held personally accountable for the things they say. Forums, instant-messaging

MICHAEL CASIANO programs and chatrooms all provide a similar safe haven for disgruntled conservatives and stealthy racists.

Anyone with access to the Internet can leave an anonymous comment on The Diamondback website.

Knowing this, it wasn’t a big surprise that my article, “Literature: It’s raining men,” which painted whiteness as something less than perfect, elicited some choice words from the cyber community.

Following ideological trends, it’s no longer OK to be explicitly racist in public. While I’m certainly not complaining, it’s clear — based on some of the comments I received on my article and comments on other articles that contain racial or gender

components — that people haven’t actually gotten rid of their prejudices.

The Internet then becomes a space for unabashed, unchecked homophobia, antisemitism, chauvinism and racial prejudice.

While all of this is unsettling, at the end of the day I can handle snarky comments. However, sometimes things get out of hand.

Last week, a column titled “Police: Tarnished by a few bad apples” received a comment by a certain “KD,” who claimed to be a local police officer. He posted a tirade against civilians, saying they give vague descriptions of suspects, which reflect poorly on police officers.

He also wrote, “You can only manage a brief description because you are to [sic] busy wetting your pants in fear when someone does something to you.”

Initially, I was taken aback by KD’s angry commentary. I would much rather be naive for the rest of my life and consider all police officers bea-

cons of objectivity and fairness. It’s not surprising, though. Police officers engage in psychologically-taxing, emotional work every day to present what seems like a clearheaded, balanced front. KD’s comment, if delivered by an actual police officer, dirties this image for anyone who comes across it.

A much larger problem arises if it turns out the comments were delivered by someone falsely claiming to be a police officer. Does that fall under “impersonation”? What are the ethical implications for posting anonymously on websites? May there be legal ramifications?

Morally and ethically, anonymous commentary has some troubling aspects that reveal legitimate concerns. However, as a writer, I can’t get bogged down fighting online ghosts.

That way madness lies.

Michael Casiano is a junior English major. He can be reached at casiano@umdbk.com.

Reality check: Words actually hurt

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itting anywhere in McKeldin Librar y, you’re bound to overhear absurd snippets of conversation, unless you’re on the seventh floor, where the only thing you hear is the sound of your own breathing. Usually these snippets are entertaining, but recently I heard a girl say something that I found ver y offensive, and not in an amusing way.

The girl was standing by a printer on the first floor with one of the librarians and was tr ying to figure out why it cost her a certain amount of money to print her document.

After the librarian explained it, she stared at him blankly and said, “I dunno, maybe I’m just retarded or something.”

I get it, mystery girl. Simple math is hard. But you are not retarded.

You do not have a mental or physical disability that prevents you from understanding how much it costs to print your paper. And if you actually

were disabled, you would not be calling yourself retarded.

The word “retarded” has become a staple in the casual use of the English language. People use it to express their distaste for or to insult a person, place or thing. When I was younger, I vehemently objected to anyone’s use of the word, but I always felt somewhat embarrassed when I got upset with friends and I was exhausted by the frequency with which it happened. The inevitable question would always follow one of my outbursts: Why do you care so much?

Well, my brother is mentally and physically handicapped. I have been defending him from kids who stare a little too much or make an obnoxious comment for as long as I can remember.

My friends use “retarded” all the time, but my reaction now is merely a flinch because I don’t want to call them out and make them feel like crap. Those who are

ELLEN LINZER close to me know about my brother and will usually offer an “oops” or will even manage to not use the word. Most of the time, I find myself asking people to please not use that word because while the reality TV show they just watched may be stupid, it’s definitely not mentally or physically handicapped.

Another word that really pisses me off when used as an insult is “gay.” Used as frequently, if not more than “retarded,” “gay” as an insult takes on a more serious note, especially with the recent influx of teen suicides due to anti-gay bullying. When I hear some guy say, “Dude, that shirt is so gay!” I just

want to go up to him and ask him if he seriously thinks that shirt has relationships with shirts of the same gender. Really, brah? And so what if that shirt likes shirts of the same gender? Just don’t wear that shirt if you don’t like it.

Shirt jokes aside, people are often careless with their words, and while words won’t actually break bones — as the adage goes — they can cause a lot of harm. Handicapped people and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are people with lives, families and friends. They are not people who were born to be stigmatized and used as an insult for things you think are weird. I know I can’t change everyone’s minds and actions, but I still try to say something when I hear one of these verbal offenses, and I ask you to do the same.

Ellen Linzer is a senior English major.

She can be reached at linzer@umdbk.com.

Problems with rent control

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he state Court of Appeals recently ruled in favor of College Park’s rent control ordinance, which limits the rent residential landlords can charge. The ruling was narrowly upheld by a 4-3 majority, with a strong dissent from a minority that included the chief justice. The ordinance first passed in 2005, when there were some legitimate concerns about affordable housing in College Park. There was a shortage of student housing at the time, and home prices and property values had risen dramatically over the previous few years.

Now, five years later, developers have built, and are continuing to build, lots of new student housing along Route 1. Also, the housing bubble has popped, with home prices and property values having fallen about 30 to 40 percent since peak levels in 2005. Thus, rent control is already taking place in College Park. So why is the City Council still intent on enforcing the ordinance? Because rent control is not what this ordinance is about. Rather, it’s about getting students out of the neighborhoods and into the new high-rise housing close to the campus. How do we know this? Because members of the council stated so under oath in depositions and in court.

The city’s ordinance bars residential landlords from collecting total monthly rent greater than 0.6 percent of a home’s assessed property tax value. Thus, for a typical four-bedroom, two-bath house with an assessed property tax value of $216,000, a landlord could charge no more than $1,296 per month (about $324 per person). At one new high-rise on Route 1, it costs more to rent a one-bedroom studio apartment ($1,345 per month), and the total cost for a four-bedroom, two-bath unit is $890 per person. With the rent control ordinance not yet enforced, most residential landlords are charging about 40 percent less than what the high-rises are charging.

The city council’s push to start enforcing the rent control ordinance is politically motivated. It’s a kiss-up to both the high-rise developers and some disgruntled residents who have complained about rental properties in their neighborhoods. It’s certainly not rent control, and it’s not a law that’s looking out for the best interests of the students. I was a university student in the 1990s and rented a room at a house near the campus for a modest rate. Like many students today, I needed lower-cost options. The new highrise housing is not financially accessible to many students.

Moreover, this law stinks of discrimination. If a law is passed with the intention of excluding people from a neighborhood because of their race, religion or sexual orientation, that’s discrimination. The council plans on enforcing this ordinance to financially compel residential landlords to close up shop in the College Park. The intention is to force students out of the surrounding neighborhoods and into the high-rise student housing that some big-time developers are heavily invested in.

Are there existing problems with absentee landlords and improperly screened, irresponsible tenants? Yes, but there are far more appropriate ways for the city to deal with this, such as code enforcement, than passing a discriminator y law that punishes all residential landlords and their student tenants — including the many who act responsibly. The Prince George’s Property Owners Association is leading an effort to end this ordinance.

PGPOA is looking for students — especially those who will be students for the next two or three years — to sign on as plaintiffs in filing a legal challenge. To get involved or get more information, please contact the president of PGPOA, Lisa Miller (no relation to me) at terprealestate@ comcast.net.

David Miller is a university alumnus who graduated with a master’s degree in 1995 and a doctorate in 2000. He can be reached at dcfm1000@yahoo.com.

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Dining Services asks group to restrategize Directors urge Jelly for the Belly to receive donations outside The Diner

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Students watched Monday Night Football while enjoying pizza and beer in the newly reopened Vito’s Pizzeria, which is still undergoing renovations and awaiting county approval to serve liquor. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

“Turtle’s always crowded, Cornerstone is always crowded, Bentley’s is crowded.

Hopefully [Vito’s] will divert the crowds.”

OPENING from page 1 least one corner, an employee was still rolling paint over the walls in the restaurant’s new shade of gray.

While many patrons said they liked the restaurant’s clean look, complete with a new bar and stylish chairs and tables, most patrons thought the blank gray walls were less than welcoming — one customer was even confused, wondering if he was in the right place with no menu displayed on the walls or slices of pizza on the counters.

“They really need to get posters up or something,” Stevens said.

Many thought the new venue was an improvement over the other downtown bars and restaurants, which often boast sticky floors and dirty table tops.

Riccio, who recently received a license to serve liquor, beer and wine, hopes to set himself apart from the typical Route 1 bar. But first, Riccio needs to get his hands on the kind of beverages that will attract late-night patrons.

Although he can start to serve wine next week, city officials barred Riccio from selling liquor for six months — a decision Riccio said he plans to appeal.

Riccio said he will strictly card the bar’s patrons, separating the lounge area with a rope and keeping security and ID scan-

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ners on hand to keep out those under 21.

Many students said it would be good for Vito’s to crack down on underage drinking because the measures would actually bring in older students who have outgrown the other downtown bars.

“Turtle’s always crowded, Cornerstone is always crowded, Bentley’s is crowded,” said senior kinesiology major Jason Friedman. “Hopefully [Vito’s] will divert the crowds.”

Some thought Vito’s brought something different to the College Park scene.

“I think it’s pretty commonly stated that the bars are overcrowded and can get pretty trashy and dirty,” said junior government and politics major Richard Baker. “Vito’s is less of a Vito’s Pizzeria reopened last night after weeks of renovation cluster f---. It’s more laid back.” to transform the small shop into a bar and lounge that students said is a welcome alternative to other downtown bars.

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Dining Ser vices has put its foot down.

After a student group successfully collected pre-made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, which students purchased with leftover dining points and donated to Washington-area homeless shelters, Dining Ser vices officials have asked the group to discontinue or shift its strategy for future sandwich-drives, according to group leaders.

Hayley Niad, Jelly for the Belly’s founder and president, said the organization netted about 740 sandwiches during its first drive Sept. 17 — about 2,500 dining points worth — and donated the food to Central Union Mission, a homeless shelter. But Dining Services officials had complaints about the process and may prohibit the student group from operating inside the North Campus Diner in the future, said Niad, a senior philosophy major.

Niad said she contacted Dining Ser vices after the first donation session to express her appreciation for how accommodating the managers were in providing the group with extra ingredients and a table to make the sandwiches inside The Diner. Later, she received an e-mail from Bar t Hipple, assistant director of Dining Ser vices, requesting to meet in person.

The two met last week to discuss the group’s mission.

Then Niad received a call indicating Dining Services’ philosophy “does not endorse the program” inside The Diner.

Dining Ser vices had some concerns with the last donation drive: They were under the impression that Jelly for the Belly would not be inside The Diner, Hipple said.

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to keep groups outside of the dining halls,” he said.

But Niad said she thought the remark was referring strictly to solicitation, and added all advertising for the drive was done outside of The Diner, six feet away from the building, which is within Dining Ser vices’ regulations.

“I wasn’t really given a ver y concrete reason as to why that was,” she said. “I’ve been tr ying to work with them, and all they’ve been telling me is ‘no.’”

An unconfirmed alternative plan has been created: Ask donors outside of The Diner to purchase food inside, such as a pizza or a sandwich, and to give it to the group outside for donation to local homeless shelters, Niad said. This way, the group will not be entering the dining hall.

Hipple said he doesn’t know what the outcome of the meeting will be for the club.

“At this point, before we meet with Hayley, it would be wrong of me to speculate,” he said. “It’s a great cause.” roubein@umdbk.com

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DRINKING from page 1 make combating overconsumption on this campus a priority as well.

Director of the Office of Student Conduct John Zacker, whose office disciplines underage drinkers on the campus, said this university’s drinking problems are similar to the University of Iowa’s.

“We continue to debate how best to address [underage drinking],” he said.

“That’s not different than the campus that Dr. Loh is coming from, the University of Iowa. We all are looking for approaches to address not only the effects of the abuse of alcohol but the use of alcohol by minors as well. That continues to be a source of frustration and challenge for us.”

Zacker said he would support a similar crackdown to what Loh instituted at Iowa because the main source of

underage drinking at this university occurs on Route 1.

“If local bars are allowing underage persons to enter their establishments, then state law is not being enforced,” he said, adding there’s a side-effect to drinking in the city of College Park and on the campus. “There are underage students going to those establishments, drinking to excess, ending up on the campus in an intoxicated state and having to be transported to the hospital. If we shut down the source, it would limit opportunity for them to obtain the alcohol.”

Based on early reports, the 21-only ordinance, which has prompted a strong backlash from student groups at Iowa who used to be allowed in bars if they were over 18, has worked: The Daily Iowan, the university’s student newspaper, reported that ambulance calls for alcohol transports were down on weekend nights compared to last year and the downtown scene has quieted substantially.

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For Loh, transforming the downtown scene of Iowa City was about keeping students safe.

“It changes the culture and climate of the place,” Loh told The Daily Iowan earlier this year. “It sends a message that we really care. This is not about prohibition, this is about safety.”

At this university, students and administrators have attempted to address the issue of student safety in other ways.

For more than three years, students have been pushing administrators to implement of a “Good Samaritan” policy that would shield students who call 911 for themselves or a dangerously intoxicated friend from university sanctions. Although a Responsible Action Protocol was put in place in April 2009, students are handled on a case-by-case basis and can still face consequences for underage drinking.

University Provost and acting President Nariman Far-

vardin said that while he personally is in favor of establishing a “Good Samaritan” policy, he questions whether or not it’s the administration’s job to curb underage drinking since it’s a federal law.

“The administration is concerned about the health of students and the well-being of students and those who surround them,” he said. “But to get proactively engaged, I’d have to think about it. The last time I checked, underage drinking is still against the law.”

In 2008, Mote and University System of Mar yland Chancellor Brit Kir wan took a controversial step in addressing underage drinking by signing the Amethyst Initiative — a petition urging university administrators to discuss on-campus binge drinking and the effectiveness of the legal drinking age.

The university then hosted an Alcohol Summit in an attempt to do away with the taboo of talking about alcohol-related issues. Talking it out, admin-

istrators said, could only help.

For years, the university has also worked to educate students on the dangers of binge drinking through outreach programs like AlcoholEDU, which all incoming students must complete.

But a severe crackdown on practices students hold dear can lead to significant backlash — a lesson Loh learned in Iowa, and one that resurfaced when the new president criticized Terps fans’ conduct at football games this semester.

Undergraduate Senator Lisa Crisalli — who ser ves on the University Senate’s most powerful committee, the Senate Executive Committee — said students shouldn’t see Loh’s work to combat binge drinking as a threat, but rather as a sign he cares about students’ well-being.

“We don’t anticipate this being a conflict whatsoever,” Crisalli said. “The students want the same thing as Loh: healthy and safe students. We

“The students want the same thing as Loh: healthy and safe students. We have the same motivations and we desire the same outcome.

Hopefully we will be able to work together towards both of those goals.”

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have the same motivations and we desire the same outcome. Hopefully we will be able to work together towards both of those goals.” redding@umdbk.com

DECLINE IN CRIME Both University and Prince George’s County Police have reported a steady crime decline in recent years. Here are the breakdowns for some of the most common crimes committed on the campus over the past four years, and this year’s totals so far: ROBBERY 2006: 15 2009: 7 2010: 6 ASSAULT 2006: 91 2009: 66 2010: 25 THEFT 2006: 582 2009: 365 2010: 225 CAR THEFT 2006: 57 2009: 38 2010: 9

CRIME from page 1 “If you’re only seeing crime alerts, all people are perceiving is that there’s a lot of crime,” said University Police Capt. Carolyn Consoli. “All they’re hearing is crime, crime, crime when the trends over the past five years show that, significantly, crime has gone down.”

But police said they have no intention of pulling back on patrols.

Beyond that, police also hope to promote the idea that this university is a safe one, and if students take a few precautions, they can have a crime-free experience.

“Unlike Duke, we’re not in a cornfield,” Mitchell said. “But if you look at the overall context, this is a very safe campus. Very safe.”

Police officials lauded ongoing efforts, such as license plate checks, monitoring security cameras and maintaining good lighting throughout and around the campus, in helping to keep crime rates low.

“This is one of the safest places on the planet,” Mitchell said.

“We’ve had six robberies [this year] and that’s six too many. But six robberies out of 33,000 students ... that’s 32,000 and some change who haven’t been robbed.”

Theft, by far the most common crime reported on the campus, saw a significant drop off in the city. According to police data, September thefts dropped nearly 40 percent from the same time period last year — from 79 to 49 logged incidents.

District 1 Commander Robert Liberati, whose jurisdiction includes College Park, credited increased patrols that were put in place largely due to the early semester robberies as the reason for the decline.

“We did some proactive things with getting people to protect their property,” he said, adding simply locking doors and windows eliminates a good chunk of thefts.

Other crimes, such as robberies and burglaries, haven’t changed much since September of last year, although police officials said those numbers aren’t audited until the end of the year. While there were six robberies reported last month, last year saw three similar incidents.

On the campus, property crimes have steadily dropped over the past several years from 843 in 2006 to 288 this year, and larceny has been cut by more than 50 percent.

Car theft has also dropped by nearly 85 percent in the last four years. present@umdbk.com

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REVIEW | BRUNO MARS

Bruno stinks Hit-maker Bruno Mars’ debut album is major label trash

BY ZACHARY BERMAN Staff writer

First of all, his name is not Bruno Mars, it’s Pete — Pete Gene Hernandez. That name is plenty good. There haven’t been too many famous musicians named Pete, or Gene for that matter.

Then again, when you are a product of music business consumerism, having any sense of realism or soul in your music or image is essentially a null concept — you don’t need to be a musician so much as a moneymaking presentation.

Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Mars’ debut album, is an assortment of uncomfortably cheeky love and chillin’ out songs that portray Mars as a major label puppet as opposed to an artist.

Prior to his own release, Mars posed alongside recent pop-hip-hop star B.o.B and cowrote songs for stand-out talentless hacks such as Flo Rida, even sinking so low as to take part in the disturbingly popular slut-pop of Ke$ha.

At first glance, Mars’ solo debut finds him in search of his own type of sound outside of his numerous guest appearances. On closer inspection, however, the album is really just a road map to Hawaiian native Mars for his journey to be the next Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, whose “Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a

Wonderful World” medley is ubiquitous on so-called chill music playlists.

In his attempts to cop this sound, some songs feature major chord-affected acoustic guitar chops along with relaxed hand-drums and shakers while Mars sings his forgettable melodies. “The Lazy Song” is a perfect example, as literally no effort was put into this contrived soundtrack to a lazy day.

Mars spends another large portion of the album playing through faster-paced yet entirely tepid 1950s R&B-style rock ‘n’ roll. Songs such as “Runaway Baby” are meant to create a fun dance mood but instead leave listeners waiting for the thing to end. Again, the title says it all — stay away from this song.

Some songs on the record aren’t completely devoid of interest, but it’s the whole package that makes the album feel like just one more useless pop record for the bargain bins.

“The Other Side” featuring B.o.B and Cee Lo Green (of Goodie Mob, Gnarls Barkley and “F--- You” fame) is ironically the best track on the album, seeing as how Mars is no longer the guest musician. A peppy little number that hits all the funk and rock elements just right while infusing rap and soul perfectly, it’s a great closing track to the album.

Earlier on the album, “Our

First Time” is a spot-on deep reggae jam, at least instrumentally. Mars’ vocals wouldn’t be most people’s first choice for reggae, but it still works, this time because of the uniform pop confines of the album.

“Liquor Store Blues,” featuring Damian Marley, is yet another attempt at Americanized reggae-pop that doesn’t pay off as well, leading listeners to believe many of these songs were recorded to capitalize on Bruno Mars, right, with rapper B.o.B, who is featured on “The Other Side” with Cee Lo Green. The trends rather than emotions. song is one of the few bright spots on Mars’ poor debut album. PHOTO COURTESY OF ONSMASH.COM On the rest of the album, Mars continues his half-hearted attempts at standard pop, coming up short almost as a rule.

With “Talking to the Moon,” Mars flashes his major-label Cub Scout badge for contrived balladry, letting the composition reside somewhere between the rolling eyes of disinterested listeners.

A soulful and sensual singer that can’t even use his real name really can’t inspire too much confidence in his listeners, so it makes sense that his debut album doesn’t do much more than solidify notions that the singer-songwriter will be all but forgotten in a few years.

Maybe then, when he is forced to play coffeehouse shows and cash checks from his salary-based job using his birth name, Mars will finally become a bit more real. zberman@umdbk.com

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REVIEW | TIM KASHER

For Tim, art is hard

BY DREW WALDO Staff writer

Who wouldn’t divorce Tim Kasher?

The singer-songwriter, better known as the frontman of Nebraska’s Cursive, has made a name for himself by singing about his own suffering, making for a mixed bag musically.

Kasher is always taking a different subject for each album — his divorce in Cursive’s Domestica or artistic success in The Ugly Organ.

Kasher’s latest solo album, The Game of Monogamy, is another plunge into the depths of adult life and all its loneliness or the “epic” journey of Kasher’s 30s.

As he wrote in The Ugly Organ about continuing on as an artist: “First you don’t, you don’t succeed/ you gotta recreate your misery.”

The album begins with a short, ironically schmaltzy instrumental, “Monogamy Overture,” before transitioning into “A Grown Man.” “I am a grown man/ How did this happen?” sings Kasher a cappella before he goes on to express how little he wants to be what he thinks a grown man is.

Just to get it out of the way: Kasher’s vocal delivery is a personal pet peeve. Every note for him is its own supposedly epic plateau, proving absolutely nothing will be simple with him. It gets exaggerated in the opener, and it pervades the rest of the album. It makes him sound too close to Flight of the Conchords for this critic’s comfort.

But on the whole, The Game of Monogamy is a lucidly constructed album. The old Sgt. Pepper bleed-first-song-into-second-song trick is applied heavily and successfully so. At least the way he arranges his songs works, if not all of the songs

themselves.

Most obnoxious among them are the bookends to the album. The closer, “Monogamy,” a preening strings and gentle guitar ballad to match the “Monogamy Overture” builds to an ironic chorus of “Monogamy!” made to sound like it was delivered from the clouds, just to emphasize how very proud Kasher is of his cynicism, in case you missed it.

In between them, tracks such as “Strays” and “The Prodigal Husband” are precocious and cloying acoustic ballads, while “A Grown Man” and “I’m Afraid I’m Gonna Die Here” do a much better job of making us commiserate.

It all works so much better when listeners get something in return for accepting the singer’s sadness. “Cold Love” offers a solid hook — a break from Kasher’s saccharine, low-talking seriousness.

The instrumentation is intricate and new enough, but there is something sterile about it, which gets to the real problem with this album.

Kasher just sounds like he is sticking his voice into prefabricated songs that are molded for his diatribes. There are organs and horns to add to the standard bass, guitar and drums formula, but the studio gloss it gets is just another level of narcissism.

At best, Kasher is a polarizing figure. A lot of what he has done is great, The Ugly Organ being the primary example. But when he falls, he falls hard. There is nothing to this music other than someone else’s sadness. waldo@umdbk.com

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HOKIES from page 11 being asked if he expected a comeback. “We hadn’t been shut out all season, and we had complete faith.”

A shutout loss by no means indicates the Terps’ attack is slipping, however. The team was able to create chances Sunday despite a quick turnaround from a trying win Thursday against No. 9 Virginia. They also were able to pump in three goals against the Cavaliers, who had surrendered only two goals all season before visiting College Park.

“With four minutes left [on Sunday], we were still knocking on the door,” Pensky said.

“We haven’t lost any faith in our ability to come from behind or our ability to score in general.”

The Terps’ loss to the Hokies, which Pensky described as “bitterly disappointing,” could have lasting ramifications.

The Terps are in the midst of the most strenuous run of their conference schedule, with Sunday’s match marking the midpoint of a grueling six-game, 19day stretch that includes three ranked opponents and three

road tests. Their loss to the Hokies, one of just four unranked teams in the conference, could haunt them through their conference slate and into the postseason.

“On any given day, you can win,” Pensky said. “But on any given day, you can lose a game that you think you have no business losing.”

There is good news for the Terps, though, throughout the ACC. No. 14 Florida State is the only team without a conference loss, and the Seminoles still have to deal with the four highest-ranked teams in the conference.

After knocking off defending national champion No. 3 North Carolina on Sept. 23, No. 2 Boston College faltered Sunday in a 3-2 overtime loss at Virginia, further evincing the parity in arguably the nation’s top conference.

“It’s not a surprise to us,” said Pensky, whose Terps will face a third ranked opponent in four games Thursday at Boston College. “As the ACC progresses, it’s going to be tight. We still have seven more games, seven games that we could win.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

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FIELD HOCKEY | NOTEBOOK

Terps finally get a fast start; Vassalotti takes a breather

BY JAKOB ENGELKE Senior staff writer

Defender Alicia Morawski and the Terps posted a 3-1 record during a rigorous road slate that ended Sunday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

TATE from page 12 added 2.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks.

But his main impact didn’t show up in the box score. The Blue Devils didn’t have a blocker who could match up with Tate’s unique blend of size, speed and strength, and any offensive rhythm they had enjoyed on the first three drives all but disappeared as Tate zoomed toward Renfree.

Tate’s impact in rushing the passer was expected by coaches and player alike — a season ago.

Last summer, Brown even optimistically predicted that Tate would reach 10 sacks if everything went according to plan.

But it didn’t, and Tate struggled as he tried to juggle punt-return, pass-rush and safety duties. He finished the 2009 season with 47 tackles, 3.5 for loss and 1.5 sacks.

“Last year, I just didn’t know the game the way I do this year,” Tate said. “Now, I can read protections a little bit faster, I look at the way the tackles set themselves, I know what their strengths and weaknesses are, so I try to use my strengths against them.”

After a recent string of slow starts, including three straight games without a goal until the 25th minute or later, the Terrapin field hockey team reversed its fortune Sunday against No. 19 Michigan.

The No. 1 Terps got on the board just 12 seconds into the contest. Before Sunday’s game, it took the Terps 25, 61 and 28 minutes to score against Virginia, Princeton and Wake Forest, respectively.

But against Michigan, the Terps quickly forced a turnover before forward Katie O’Donnell picked up the ball and fired a shot into the upper half of the cage.

“It’s always our goal,” O’Donnell said after the team’s trip to Wake Forest on Sept. 25. “Every game, we come out to put one in the net in the first five minutes.”

The Terps did just that in Ann Arbor, Mich., before adding

another goal eight minutes later, once again off a shot from O’Donnell.

Coach Missy Meharg said O’Donnell’s first goal was a product of studying game film from the Cavaliers game. After watching Virginia attack the Terps’ left defensive flank, resulting in an early penalty corner opportunity for the Cavaliers, Meharg sought to imitate Virginia’s tactics against the Wolverines.

“So we told Ali [McEvoy] to throw it at [Michigan’s] left back, and [O’Donnell] picked it up right away and went in and scored,” Meharg said. “So it was an opportunity to learn from your opposition.”

TOUGH SCHEDULE Every year, the Terps’ schedule offers a difficult slate of opponents — a byproduct of membership in the ACC, the nation’s best conference — but the team’s most recent

road trip offered a particularly daunting string of games.

The Terps played at No. 9 Wake Forest on Sept. 25, No. 4 Princeton on Sept. 28, No. 3 Virginia on Friday and No. 19 Michigan on Sunday.

Meharg said she set the schedule up on purpose to help her young team learn — and learn fast.

“We were just bewildered that I could even make a schedule like that,” Meharg said. “My feeling this year is that we are a young team, and the schedule was part of that learning plan.”

The Terps escaped the rigorous four-game road streak relatively unscathed, going 3-1 over the twoweek span. The team did, however, suffer its first loss of the season, falling to Princeton, 4-2.

“I’m really pleased with the outcome,” Meharg said. “I’m proud of our women for going 3-1 in four hard away games.”

GOALIE TALK After starting six straight games, goalkeeper Melissa Vassalotti finally got some rest against Michigan, as freshman Natalie Hunter recorded her first start since Sept. 11.

Meharg continues to emphasize that she wants both goalkeepers to gain quality Division I field hockey experience, but it appears that Vassalotti will get the nod against stiffer competition.

Meharg called her performance against Virginia, in which she recorded a career-high eight saves, “probably her best collegiate game so far.”

“We had told [Vassalotti] prior that Natalie was going to play against Michigan,” Meharg said.

“We need both of these young goalkeepers — maybe not agewise, but experience-wise — to be relied upon.” jengelke@umdbk.com

This season, the Terps’ starting defensive ends — Drew Gloster and Justin Anderson — have proved solid against the run, but neither has shown the top-end tools or athleticism necessary to become a consistent threat rushing the passer.

Tate, at a chiseled 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, is arguably the most athletic player on the Terps’ defense, if not the entire roster. And with Brown’s defense predicated on creating pressure on the quarterback, continued success for Tate in harassing opponents’ backfields could prove critical in helping to alleviate pressure from the Terps’ beleaguered and inexperienced secondary.

“It was the best football game he’s played since he’s been here,” Brown said. “He was a huge part of our pass rush, did a great job in the running game and had some good covers as well, so he played on all three levels tonight. And that’s the kind of player that we think he is.

So it was nice to see potential and practice translate into performance in a game, and tonight, he took it into the game.” lemaire@umdbk.com

Safety Kenny Tate, No. 6, limited Duke’s rush attack Sunday with a team-high nine tackles. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Williams named to Wooden watch list Terp center among 50 players in running for top honor

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Staff writer

Midfielder Megan Gibbons and the Terps reached the midpoint of a trying six-game, 19-day strech Sunday, when they lost, 1-0, to Virginia Tech. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

WOMEN’S SOCCER

In loss to Hokies, Terps struggled to regroup vs. league lightweight

BY CONOR WALSH Staff writer

The No. 7 Terrapin women’s soccer team’s 1-0 loss Sunday to Virginia Tech had countless implications.

The Terps fell in their first true road test. Their 10game unbeaten streak was snapped. Their lethal attack was held scoreless.

But it was two less-obvious consequences that may matter most. The defeat not

UCONN from page 12 after the Terps’ anticipated home game against Duke.

Still, Cirovski welcomed the challenge.

“We wanted to get as much quality into our schedule as possible,” Cirovski said. “At this point, they’ve earned the right to be among the top-ranked teams in the country, so they’re

only marked the one time this year the Terps have been unable to salvage at least a draw after falling behind, it also represented a forgettable setback as the Terps look to better last year’s NCAA Tournament success.

After the Hokies scored in the 53rd minute to break the deadlock, the Terps still had reason to be confident. Averaging more than three goals per game entering the

match, the Terps’ potent attack had shown an ability to strike at any time, coming from behind to earn at least a point in four games this season.

Despite plenty of secondhalf chances, though, the Terps could not complete their fifth comeback of the season Sunday.

“Yeah, I think I did,” coach Brian Pensky said after

very good.”

In scheduling tough midweek matches, Cirovski aims to sustain any positive momentum and focus lingering from the previous weekend. The situation fits tonight — the Terps are coming off their first high-quality win of the season after dispatching Duke, 2-0, just four days ago.

Mitigating any momentum from that win, however, are the burdens of a physically and

see HOKIES, page 9

emotionally draining stretch of games. The Terps have had just three days to prepare for their toughest nonconference game of the season, and Connecticut is the third straight top-10 opponent they will face.

The key for the Terps tonight will be to keep their offense playing with same intensity and connectedness it showed against the Blue Devils.

A late first-half goal from midfielder Patrick Mullins

Terrapin men’s basketball center Jordan Williams was one of 50 players named yesterday to the preseason watch list for the John Wooden Award, given to the best player in the country.

Williams made an immediate impact as a freshman for the Terps last season, averaging 9.6 points and a team-high 8.6 rebounds per game. He had five double-doubles in the Terps’ last 10 games, including both NCAA Tournament games.

An ACC All-Freshman team selection, Williams also came in second in ACC Rookie of the Year voting behind former Georgia Tech forward Derrick Favors, the No. 3 overall selection in the 2010 NBA Draft.

Williams was one of eight ACC players to make the preseason watch list. Boston College forward Joe Trapani, Duke guard Nolan Smith and forward Kyle Singler, Florida State forward Chris Singleton, N.C. State center Tracy Smith, North Carolina forward John Henson and Virginia Tech guard Malcolm Delaney were also selected.

Williams is one of only 10 sophomores to make the list.

Absent the graduated core of Eric Hayes, Landon Milbourne and Greivis Vasquez — a finalist for the Wooden Award last season — Williams’ continued success and development will be vital to the Terps’ 2010-11 campaign. He and guard Sean Mosley are the lone returning starters from last season’s ACC

ended a streak of nearly 280 minutes without a goal in the run of play. After a disconcerting performance against North Carolina on Sept. 24, the Terps went back to the basics Friday, pounding the Duke box with dangerous crosses and sniffing out loose rebounds.

“It was a long bus ride home, a lot of soul searching,” Mullins said of the loss at North Carolina. “We thought our offense kind of stuttered a little bit there

Center Jordan Williams averaged almost a double-double in his freshman season for the Terps. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

regular-season champion team, from which senior guards Adrian Bowie and Cliff Tucker and forward Dino Gregory also return.

The Terps’ annual Maryland Madness festivities open the sea-

son Oct. 15. The Terps host Florida Southern in an exhibition Nov. 1 and open their season Nov. 8 against Seattle.

and we wanted to get back on the right track. I think we found a nice rhythm.”

Mullins and the offense could find themselves stuck with the same problem they faced against the Tar Heels. The Huskies, according to Cirovski, are a possession-oriented team “a little bit in the mold of [North] Carolina.” At times, the Terps struggled to move the ball even past midfield and into the attacking third against the Tar Heels.

The Terps will need to continue to build on their attacking success to top Connecticut.

“We knew we hadn’t really done anything and we still haven’t done anything,” midfielder Matt Kassel said. “I think we’ll be ready.”

He hesitated, then corrected himself.

“No,” Kassel said, “I know we’ll be ready.”

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FOOTBALL

After Duke showdown, Terps can’t catch break Tonight’s UConn matchup is 3rd vs. top-10 team

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Tonight, Ludwig Field won’t house a record crowd, national television crew or the hype of a conference rivalry game.

But in No. 3 Connecticut, the Terrapin men’s soccer team faces all the same problems and none of the pomp from its Friday night match against No. 9 Duke.

The Huskies (7-0-2), who have allowed just three goals in nine matches this season, are arguably the toughest team coach Sasho Cirovski will welcome to College Park this season. But they’ll arrive in the subdued fashion of a midweek game.

“Right now, they’re the real deal,” Cirovski said. “They are the team, next to [No. 1] Akron, that is the most talked about.”

Cirovski said he would have liked to play the Huskies during the weekend, but he had no other choice than to schedule them during the week. Due to a scheduling quirk that left the Terps with a truncated 11-week regular season, the only open date for both teams fell just days

see UCONN, page 11

Safety Kenny Tate, far right, had a productive game Saturday in the Terps’ 21-16 victory over Duke, collecting 1.5 sacks.

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In time of need, Tate flies to the rescue Terp safety’s pass-rushing pressure helped Terps turn the tide vs. Duke in win Saturday

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

Early in the second quarter, already up 6-0 and facing a second-and-11 in the shadow of the Terrapin football team’s goalposts, Duke quarterback Sean Renfree was cruising.

The Terp defense’s attempts to pressure the redshirt soph-

omore had failed, and Renfree had taken advantage of their struggles, picking apart the Terps’ secondary for 142 yards on nine of 13 passing.

That all happened before defensive coordinator Don Brown, fed up with the lack of a pass rush, decided to unleash safety Kenny Tate.

As Renfree dropped back to

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pass, Tate came on a backside blitz. He blew past running back Desmond Scott’s feeble attempt to block him and crushed Renfree from behind, forcing a fumble.

The Blue Devils recovered the fumble and kicked another field goal. But Renfree had finally felt real pressure. For the rest of the game, he was

hardly the same, throwing two interceptions and struggling under the same kind of duress Tate had first applied.

For the Terp defense, Tate’s sack represented the start of a much-needed breakthrough.

But for Brown and coach Ralph Friedgen, the play was representative of something much longer in the making.

“He did the best job I have ever seen him do in rushing the passer,” Friedgen said.

“That’s how he is in practice; in games, he always seems much more cautious. But he was turning it loose tonight.”

Tate finished the game with a team-best nine tackles, and

see TATE, page 10